skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd hardly call it that if it was anybody. And for Torvalds, this is more like mild advice.
Wow, this article has no research and is just half-baked speculation. "there were some very clever data structures" yeah? Like what?
And the proposed solution? Load the whole thing into a hash? Did you forget that spellchecker offer suggested corrections? How do you expect to implement that?
I support Gary Johnson. I believe he will help restore civil liberties that have been stripped via the Bush and Obama administration, campaign for drug law reform, and campaign for a FairTax implementation. He will stop the wars, cut federal spending, and hopefully 'do no evil'.
And perhaps not.

OP says mining diamonds from outer space is nonsense, with good arguments, and you say ... what exactly? That space-mined diamonds are somehow more valuable than earth-produced ones?
Graph is not distributed, at least not in the way that Storm is. Notice the post doesn't talk about assigning individual components to individual machines. AFAICT its intended to run on a beefy box, and then horizontally scaled.
> Assuming that code for efficiently indexing and compressing this kind of dictionary was written 25 years ago, there doesn't seem to be any good reason not to reuse it.

What if the efficient code is extremely "clever" and hard to understand from reading the code (and thus hard to fix bugs, add new features, etc.)? Doesn't it make sense to revert to the simpler and technically less efficient version if you know that the hardware will be more than enough?

I suppose you could still argue that the more efficient version is better, at least once it is mature and packaged in some library or framework.
When you write a text message without proper punctuation or capitalization, do you say that's not English because it doesn't follow strict grammar rules? No. It's less formal English, but it's still English.
Type-setting, layout, user experience. A magazine is not an app, but a magazine can be an app.
It is so hopeless i don't even want to hear about it. There is no good candidate and such one simply cannot exist in the current political climate - too many unresponsible voters.

"I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people."

A guy who said that was a great U.S. President, the kind of you desperately need right now, but in today's political climate, he would be eaten alive.

I am sure the 'human rights' movement doomed the democracy as we know it (of course i don't mean that women or blacks should not vote, i mean that during that process of 'empowerment', some other regulation should have been put in place to make sure public funds-dependent people, net recipients from the government, will not vote). Now it is too late - anyone who plans to put these limits in place will need the votes of that people to come to power, and they won't vote for him -> this is a chicken-and-egg problem which could be fixed only through (seemingly inevitable) collapse of society, period of dictatorship, and then restoration of refurbished democracy.
>It's certainly iOS-first, but I don't see any indication that it's iOS-only.

You know exactly what he meant, no need to play word games.

>Given the iPad's position in the tablet market, it will be a while before magazine style publications (which are natural for the form-factor) give equal priority to Android.

It's text.

Also, considering it took 4 years for Instapaper to make it to Android, skepticism is more than warranted.
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>Introducing The Magazine: a modern iOS Newsstand publication for geeks like us that’s loosely about technology, but also gives tech writers a venue to explore other topics that like-minded geeks might find interesting.

So, also boring stuff about brewing coffee and typefaces?
Are you sure you're not confusing PopCap and Zynga? PopCap make Bejewled, and create games that are much deeper than the Zynga games I've tried.
Add .rs too. :)
Yeah, I thought that, too. My property managers were even worse than my tenants, and I went through a couple of services that had been recommended to me by people I trusted.

I actually had a year and a half with zero income from a house. None.
Like Alibaba, But Safer: HD Trade Services (YC S12) For Goods Traders
> In this wide-spanning conversation ...

... presented as dark gray text, on a dark gray background, that I won't try to read. But the primary page content is video, so I guess the text content doesn't matter, along with Web design conventions or print literacy.
>But on the other hand...I'm really wondering why this needs to be an iOS app. Written content is perfect for publishing on the web, I really don't think you'll be running into any speed issues when you release this as a web magazine.

Speed? No. But you'll run into monetization issues, especially if you don't want to attract the lowest common denominator, and intend on quality articles that get fewer eyeballs (= less ad revenue).
Appeals court nixes a Galaxy Nexus ban requested by Apple
If I understand the nature of this system, it's essentially a higher-order function composition tool. Correct?

Nit, defnk? what about def-kw-func or something? not wholly readable as defnk.
Good point, I hadn't even noticed that. I suppose it's better than full justification, but still odd that they don't just do ragged right.
It's got nothing to do with competition. Silverlight is also not allowed in the Modern IE10.
This is totally the same as Instapaper but instead of an app, it's magazine issues. All paid-subscriptions magazines still appear as free apps on iOS, but they either offer a free sample or a free trial.

In this case, it's a free trial, which makes sense when it's the first issue! But don't be surprised if The Magazine switches to a free sample. That's especially worth noting if you're expecting to optimize for a free trial.

My point is that Marco doesn't have any expertise selling advertising, as many would like him to do, and does have a lot of experience selling through the App Store. He's just keeping the business model as constant as possible.
I lucked out with this project; it began as a Kickstarter which got incredibly overfunded:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxcantor/beautiful-vim-...

It hit the front page of "Featured Technology" projects and lived there for almost the entire funding run.

I used UPrinting for the printing, who I'm quite happy with. It cost less than a thousand dollars to do the initial run of 500 posters.

Initially, my approach to shipping was to buy 500 poster tubes from Uline (no relation to UPrinting) and ship them myself. This was an unmitigated disaster; a cataclysm; a miserable shit-show of Brobdingnagian proportions. There is simply not sufficient support for the "hobbyist shipper"; USPS doesn't know what to do with you, UPS and Fedex charge too much (especially for international shipping), and the label-printing tools are across-the-board some of the worst software I've ever worked with. After months of Kafkaesque hijinks with USPS, I gave up and shipped my inventory to Fulfillrite, a third-party fulfillment provider. Thank God for those guys.

I haven't run the numbers to determine my exact profit & loss, but I make more than just beer money. I don't know if I'll ever sell enough to come even close to what the Kickstarter originally made, but the web store has been bringing in around $750/mo in revenue, which translates to something in the range of $350 - $500 of profit.

I tend to make money to the extent that more eyeballs hit the site. Last month, someone mentioned the poster in passing in the comment of a blog I'd never heard of, and I made $300 in six hours. I have no idea how to advertise, though, so that kind of thing is usually just lucky happenstance for me.

I'll probably do another couple of poster projects (bash, emacs, etc.); if they are even nearly as successful as this one, I might eventually be able to live exclusively off the profits! An exciting prospect, but one that is quite far off.

Feel free to drop me a line if you have any other questions. I really ought to condense this stuff into a blog post some time.
Otto: A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go
I also share the concern with an iOS-only model, but give him a break: it's just a 2 months proof-of-concept.

He needs critical mass in order to make this sustainable in the long term - without having to resort to ads, sponsored reviews and all sorts of ways to keep the quality.

The choice for iOS for the initial platform seems obvious: it's much easier to monetize quickly. And it's easy to add Kindle, Android, HTML5 and others later on - at the cost of maintaining multiple versions, provided that there's enough interested paying subscribers to justify the effort.

I think that's exactly the right approach, and a real step forward.
Anybody else notice the date animation and mouse over text for same?
Via a Spectrometer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer

You can do it yourself. Do you know why the sky is blue? Because blue light waves are scattered by molecules in our atmosphere. The light emanating from distant stars also interact with the molecules in the star and nearby planets etc.
No, as a matter of fact, we cannot know this. No matter how many people speculate about it, it's not a property of the universe we can determine in a scientific sense. It's empty philosophy -- but I repeat myself.
Btw, it's not just microkernels. Any time you have "one overriding idea", and push your idea as a superior ideology, you're going to be wrong. Microkernels had one such ideology, there have been others. It's all BS. The fact is, reality is complicated, and not amenable to the "one large idea" model of problem solving. The only way that problems get solved in real life is with a lot of hard work on getting the details right. Not by some over-arching ideology that somehow magically makes things work.

Yes, well, Torvalds is here disputing one of the main drivers of science, the motive that brought us Newtonian physics, quantum mechanics, you know, the very things he depends on via his use of microprocessor technology.

If your "one overriding idea" is wrong, then certainly that'll get you into trouble, but as history demonstrates, they aren't always wrong. They are always hard to come up with, and often when you come up with them you face an uphill battle with people who want to maintain the status quo and who can't conceive of "one big idea." But eventually those ideas are the ones that cause tectonic shifts in human progress.

His reference to Edison is apt. It wasn't Edison who brought us the AC motor that literally revolutionized power distribution and the whole industrialized world. It was a man who thought big, who had "one overriding idea": Tesla.
I find it super useful to get a quick insight into a random page. As I'm still learning a lot about HTML, I can go to a website and see a quick visual breakdown of how the elements are composed together.
> and you say ... what exactly?

I say, show respect for those with opinions. Maybe diamonds in space are 100% useless, I would be totally willing to accept that fact. I'm only upset at the rudeness and name calling.

> That space-mined diamonds are somehow more valuable than earth-produced ones?

If, in 20 years, we find a use for diamonds in space, then yes, they would be much more valuable than Earth ones since you don't have to transport them to space. Additionally, it seems quite likely to me that a strong compound like diamond would indeed have its use in space.
Thanks! There are some more complex examples in the slides, I just didn't want to make the blog post any longer.

The main similarity between this and Nathan Marz's Storm framework is that they both rely on a declarative expression of the structure of the computation graph.

However, beyond that there are many key differences. Storm is a graph computation framework, which compiles your specification into a distributed real-time computation pipeline. In contrast, Graph is just a library for expressing composition structure, but says nothing about execution strategy.

In principle (with a lot more code and some more annotations), one could compile Graphs into distributed real-time topologies like Storm. For now we've been using Graph in-process for real-time processing. But because Graph is so simple and close to the language, it's very easy to apply to new situations and build new abstractions on top of.
For example, we also find Graph useful for expressing the composition structure of our production services, which are built up from many components.
It's neither rare, nor expensive to produce - and people tend to prefer real thing because DeBeers manufactured this trend through a decades-long marketing campaign. An article from 80's covers it quite well:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1982/02/have-you-e...
Do you have to incorporate in Chile to participate in Startup Chile? Or do you only have to consider employing local people/making it your hq?
my mini-comparison

Cloud Static Storage (cents/gigabyte)

site	storage bandwidth

dreamobjects 7	7	http://dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/pricing/
cloudfiles	10	18	http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/pricing/
amazon s3	12.5	12	http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Bitcoin to Gold Marketplace
Pacific Northwest's Oldest VC Firm To Shut Down
The Jurisdiction issues involved in this law suit are interesting from a legal perspective.That being said i think that this case will lead no where because of the right to freedom of speech (Provided that the United States has Jurisdiction-which i think it has).
Thanks for this! I can't make tonight, but definitely want to come to things like this and didn't know this one. :)
Ask HN: How many sales calls have you had from Love Film Today?
Love Film have knocked at my door 4 times today. I have been a customer, I think your online service sucks and no i'm not interested.
Why do people leave consulting?
Everyone isn't cut out for freelancing as a sole proprietor. Here are my theories why people leave it, and what it tells us about startups and being an entrepreneur.
It is my understanding that apps can no longer publish automatically at all ;

"In order to provide users with experiences that meet their expectations, we will no longer approve custom actions that publish stories as people consume content. These apps must use the appropriate built-in actions or create a different sharing experience."
My last design took about 5 minutes, and it took maybe 20minutes in total "advertising" and I got back... two months salary. (software dev, in NZ)
Yep, that's correct.

Point taken about the names, thanks for the feedback. Since Clojure already uses defn and fn, defnk and fnk seemed natural. But maybe defn-keyword and fn-keyword would be better.
To me, it sounds like delicious culinary convention in a valley. Not a negative.
Of course it's not - but right now the value does not follow the real supply and demand curve, but is fixed by DeBeers, et al. We have lots and lots of diamonds, and if not for a clever decades long marketing campaign, they would be mostly worthless. Going to space to get more diamonds (which we don't need, because we already have too many of them) would be a colossal waste of resources.
I grew up in Chile and although bankruptcy laws are harsh, labor laws are even harsher and unlikely to change given the political power of unions:

Employers are mandated to give 30 days notice when laying off employees. They also have to pay 1 month per each year of employee service. (employee been there 9 years, you have to pay him monthly salary * 10 to let him go)

This law is good for employee stability and help keeps salaries low (employees with several years of service are unlikely to quit and lose the accrued severance). However you cannot show up one morning, close the curtain and tell everybody "sorry, company ran out of money".
I only partially agree. My suspicion is that the search algorithm -- like many text search algorithms -- drops articles, leaving only "magazine" as the search term, and then suddenly your algorithm is hosed. I think Apple should prioritize a title which, when you drop its articles, is an exact match for the search term, but I've seen other people argue that Apple needs to take into account popularity and star ratings in the result order, which they probably do. And at this point "The Magazine" isn't going to be nearly as popular as other things with "magazine" in the title.

While I appreciate the Zen nature of The Magazine as a title, for search algorithms it may be the equivalent of naming your company "There" (a place I worked at briefly): it's very clever, but it's damn hard to search for.
neither - http://startupchile.org/about/faqs/
Romney because I'm a capitalist and appose abortion.
I suggest to display the exchange rate using scientific notation.

0.2165440E-17
I think technical debt covers slop, Technical debt is debt you will eventually have to pay. Slope is just a "really bad" kind of debt that you would be better not getting into.
Pragmatically, we get into debt because we have no choice. Be it lack of skills, lack of hands or lack of time, not because we "want" to get in debt.
The AWS cost structure is byzantine in its complexity. This cheat sheet helps a lot. Thank you.
>If you are good at it, you make money hand-over-fist at the moment.

I don't know of any web news site (that's what we're discussing, we're not talking about the general case of "charging for content on the web", e.g software, music, video, etc) that makes money "hand-over-fist". Quite the opposite.

And the "if you're good at it" is tautological fluff --if you are talking about web news outlets.

If you have problems monetizing a news site with quality content and readers interested in it, then it's proof that "charging for content on the web doesn't work", not that "you're not good at it". In content providing, "good at it" just means: the content is good, and a fair number of readers want to read it.

On the web, this has only worked with ad-supported sites (which means you need to attract many many readers, and thus lower the quality of the copy/make it more generic, to do so) or with vertical, industry specific content for audiences that can afford it (the Economist, for example).
We haven't had the need for that application yet, but it's certainly possible -- that's why declarative specifications are great :)

I haven't heard of SecDB, but I'll definitely check it out -- thanks!
earthquakes are not a huge deal... unless you want to live in a coast city (and not because of the earthquake, but the tsunami), which you probably won't because most of the business are made in Santiago.
Constructions regulations in Chile are very strict, and most of the buildings will have almost no impact even after an 8.0 earthquake like the one that happen a few years ago.
"Writing a spellchecker in the mid-1980s was a hard problem. Programmers came up with some impressive data compression methods in response to the spellchecker challenge."

It's still a hard problem. Most working programmers today couldn't write a good spellchecker if their life depended on it.

Sure, your average coder can load the dictionary file into RAM in a hash table (built by someone else), and a few of those could maybe use a library implementing a Trie or a DAWG (built by someone else)...and a percentage of those might even understand what they're doing well enough to know how to use those tools to make things better. But once you've got the data into memory, what do you do with it? About the most anyone can do is point to Peter Norvig's blog post.

Sadly, very few people understand the theory behind it well enough to make improvements. So for everyone else, it's a major feat of software engineering -- on a bigger computer.
The end of retail as we know it?
I wondered this too, I sometimes get a chance to talk to foreign representatives who are tasked with creating the '<your country here>' version of Silicon Valley. I've gotten it down to a few bullets:

1) A pool of risk tolerant capital.

You need the capital to start the businesses, people pitch the money men for seed, series A - D, rounds.

2) A lack of regulation on competition.

You need to understand that existing, powerfully connected, companies are going to get disrupted and you need to prevent them from killing off the startups.

3) A failure tolerant culture.

You need to understand that Silicon Valley is awash in failures, they are everywhere, but they don't have the same sort of stigma they might elsewhere. This disassociation between personal failure and startup failure is key.

Typically, the first challenge is that culturally the company sees failure as a problem for the individual "He failed at his business" which needs to morph into "One of the businesses he started (positive affirmation) didn't take off. (business failed, he didn't)" That is hard for a lot of people who have historically thought of businesses as things you put your whole life into.

The next thing is pointing out to powerful people that their 'friends' will ask them to kill the very thing they are trying to start when it starts costing them money. To understand a successful startup you have to understand that if they are successful they start out by re-directing capital flow to (or through) them which funds their growth. I've used AirBnB a couple of times as a great example of this (although Uber works as well). Here is a startup which is growing by taking money that would have gone to Hotel chains, and instead putting it into the hands of these non-hoteliers. So the Hotels are going to be irritated and try to stop it, be prepared for that.

The challenge is that the impression people start with is that 'Silicon Valley' is composed of startups which are always new "green field" businesses that bring great returns to modest investment. Not realistic at all.
I would be interested in a paid RSS option.
I love reading prismatic's blog. You have some really smart people there. However, it seems like you're trying to solve everything from a purist view and I think your product is suffering as a result. I have made the same suggestion consistently that would make me use it more without any reply. Basically, I've stopped using the product as the UX does not match the reason I would want to use the product.
If by "wait" you mean work furiously, then yes by all means do that ;)
Fair enough, OP's "idiots" was unnecessarily harsh.

There is indeed some chance that mining diamonds from far-off planets would make economical sense. But there is some chance for almost anything happening. It's a trivial statement that doesn't add anything IMO.
As soon as there's someone that would be happy to use what you've got.
I tried using this lib to make a self aware browser which can also serve requests to other browsers. but dropped it cause it didn't go well wit the sandbox model.
Actually, newer server CPUs have that, in a way. Each core is technically identical, but the performance is not always identical and can be dynamically adjusted.

The most obvious example is dynamic overclocking, where one core (that ideally works on a sequential part) gets a higher frequency (the other cores are usually underclocked at the same time). Intel calls this Turbo Boost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Boost

In Hyper-Threading enabled cores, you also have varying performance per core, i.e. if one core only hosts one active thread that is CPU-bound the execution is faster than if one HT-core hosts two CPU-bound threads.

So, it is technically feasible, but at the same time makes scheduling for the OS harder.

Edit: And it also makes app performance less predictable. And it's one of the reasons why you need to run serious benchmarks more than a couple of times.
I thought we were talking about viewing ebooks.